The Provensens lived inside a picture book as much as picture books lived inside them. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-12-30 17:14:23 UTC ]
If you want to expand your picture book horizons past the classics, pick up one of these hidden gems of the format! Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-12-29 11:34:00 UTC ]
David Walliams’ next picture book, Marmalade, will be published by HarperCollins Children's Books in February featuring illustrations by Adam Stower. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-21 01:51:57 UTC ]
New Frontier Publishing has signed Jump for the Stars, the debut picture book from TV presenter and model Vogue Williams, illustrated by Tilia Rand-Bell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-14 22:35:02 UTC ]
Abby Voss has won the inaugural Searchlight Awards Best Children’s Bedtime Story Competition with her picture book text "The Witch Who Couldn’t Spell". Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-12-12 23:12:07 UTC ]
“Our Journey Together" promises to capture “the greatness" of the Trump White House, but critics aren't convinced. Continue reading >> [ Source: HuffPost | 2021-11-20 12:07:31 UTC ]
One reader reflects on why a picture book with messages about love, perseverance, and imperfection has connected with so many readers in the last two years. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2021-11-18 11:37:00 UTC ]
Fay Evans alleges a ‘striking similarity’ between the 2019 Excitable Edgar TV campaign and her 2017 book Fred the Fire-Sneezing DragonThe author of a self-published children’s book about a dragon that causes havoc with its fiery sneezes is suing John Lewis over its 2019 Christmas ad about a... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2021-11-16 14:46:45 UTC ]
A picture book and two middle grade books introduce young people to art mediums and their messages. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-12 21:41:23 UTC ]
Comics creator Rachel Smythe has the #5 book in the country with 'Lore Olympus, Vol. 1.' Plus YouTube science educator Philipp Dettmer lands two spots below with 'Immune,' and 'Aaron Slater, Illustrator,' the latest Questioneers book by Andrea Beaty and David Roberts, tops our picture book list. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-11-12 05:00:00 UTC ]
“How War Changed Rondo,” a picture book by the Ukrainian artists Romana Romanyshyn and Andriy Lesiv, captures the unrelenting destructiveness of wartime as a young person experiences it. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-11-05 04:04:43 UTC ]
HarperCollins Children's Books has signed a new four-book deal with picture book creator Emma Chichester Clark. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-26 17:42:17 UTC ]
Benjamin Zephaniah is writing a “powerfully moving” picture book about the voyage of "HMT Empire Windrush" to be published by Scholastic UK in April 2022. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-23 10:30:14 UTC ]
Essay Photo by Eileen Pan / Unsplash “Instead of a totalizing interpretation,” writes the author, translators should seek a dialogical one. “We have to leave space,” he writes, “for a story, an anecdote, a metaphorical footnote.” We all spend a... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2021-10-20 18:36:14 UTC ]
Macmillan Children’s Books has pounced for Five Bears, a new picture book written and illustrated by Catherine Rayner. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-10-19 14:57:35 UTC ]
Puffin has acquired a "heart-warming" debut picture book by writer and journalist Freddy McConnell, illustrated by Rosalind Beardshaw. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-23 19:01:01 UTC ]
Simon & Schuster Children’s Books is launching a new picture book partnership between author Frances Stickley and debut illustrator Eamonn O’Neill, signing two books from the pair. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-23 10:52:10 UTC ]
Flavia Z Drago has won the £5,000 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting and promising newcomer to children’s picture book illustration with her book Gustavo the Shy Ghost (Walker Books). Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-23 00:18:26 UTC ]
Puffin has acquired Listen, a picture book biography written by Shannon Stocker and illustrated by Devon Holzwarth, which tells the story of deaf percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-22 12:13:00 UTC ]
Far too many times, I’ve been in a bookshop or a school and heard adults persuade a child away from a picture book and encouraged them to read ‘something more appropriate’. There’s a huge notion in this country that picture books are for younger children and a step into ‘proper reading’. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-09-13 08:06:26 UTC ]